Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “after” →
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.